[allmendream]

No less an authority than Plato held up, in his “Symposium”, the example of Achilles and Patroclus as paragons of “romantic love”.

[Antoninus]

I am asking for evidence that this cultural trait existed during Homer's day. Plato and Aeschylus both lived approximately 3-500 years after Homer during the period of Greek history when pederasty was widely accepted. Can you provide evidence from the Homeric period that pederasty was similarly accepted?

Without further evidence, your claim is the equivalent of saying "because Americans in 1998 smoked crack, the Pilgrims must have as well." Or, "Scholars in 2007 said that George Washington was a homosexual, therefore, he must have been."